super excited for boba guys union square location. apparently it's on stockton right underneath the tunnel next to the 30/45 bus stop. that means i'll see it everyday on the way to work. too scary. it's going to be a 3 minute walk from my place to get boba. O.O

so I just went to got back from the Folsom Street Fair in SF. It was an interesting experience. I think although I dream of living the otaku life... sometimes I can't resist exploring and going out. But then each time I go out... it's like - damn why'd I go out, I could've been playing video games at home.

The street fair is definitely a very SF event I feel. I saw so many naked people. It seemed to be an event for gay people... /shrug. I didn't really enjoy it, but it's certainly an experience. I'd recommend people who live in SF to  go check it out... if only once like me. To learn that you won't like it.

I haven't been journaling or writing in the blog recently. Everything that I can think of is just an excuse. While it's true that I'm working much longer hours at my new job compared to previously, I definitely still have time to do shit and blog. I think I'm just a bit too focused on work recently. In a bit, I'll write about my experiences of job searching and my current job. But for now, let's just say I'm intensely focused on work at the expense of possibly other areas of my life. Since I've started work... I haven't been going to yoga and my workouts have become mere exercise sessions as opposed to training where I aim to keep getting better.

Just looking back at my recent experiences - it reminds me of the book Mastery. I think a lot of the times you don't see your improvement - until you've jumped to the next level. So it's like.. until you jump to the next level, you feel as if you're making no progress. But then at some point - you'll just arrive at the next level. With my software engineering... I've found that whenever I asked people now the answer a lot of the times is 'I don't know' or 'I gotta research'. I no longer run into problem where senior engineers can just give me an answer because if it's a problem that I actually need to ask them for - chances are they don't know it on the top of their head.

I feel like time has been going by really quickly recently. I guess that's the price I pay for going on autopilot for almost 6 months of this year. I recently played Ni No Kuni - and the last time I touched it was December of last year. And right now... it's almost October a year after. Shit... it feels almost like yesterday that I was playing Ni No Kuni. Or, it definitely doesn't feel like 10 months ago.

My life right now is pretty amazing. I'll probably break down a couple pages /. posts to talk about all the amazing services and things that I get. But in San Francisco, with Instacart, Eat24hours, Lyft, Postmates and TaskRabbit. There really isn't much reason to leave the house. I can live the true otaku life in SF.

tl;dr - saw naked people at folsom. autopilot'd for 6 months. otaku life is good in SF</strong></p>

One piece is the only manga out of the big 3 that I'm currently enjoying. Bleach and Naruto are both sucking right now... I just want Naruto to end... and same thing with Bleach. Honestly, with Bleach and Naruto it feels like the sunk cost fallacy in action for me.

This weeks' one piece was the usual micro serving of amazing stuff. One piece as really slow pacing sometimes, but overall the series is still so good. My favorite character of this arc is probably Sabo. Luffy's big brother #2 and ultimate badass. As the #2 to Revolutionary Dragon he's fighting 1v1 with an admiral like it's nothing. I feel like Sabo should be at least admiral level and probably beyond. So I'm super excited that we're entering the phrase of the manga where pretty much all the characters are approaching admiral level.

Excited to see how the one leg man will fight. It honestly feels like he's operating on pure manliness. No idea how he can even fight properly on one leg.

tl;dr - Sabo is awesome and one piece is progressing steadily :)</strong></p>

So I just googled man touch because I wanted to see what touch did. I always used it to create an empty file but I guess it's used to do that, and also to update the last updated timestamp.

It was really funny because I wasn't sure if I was going to have all the search results of a man touching something or touching himself... so it was a risky google search. But then google being google, the man page for touch was the first result. Damn, google is so smart.

I wonder if google has custom search results based on your search history. Google probably profiled me as a programmer since I google so much stack overflow shit and how to fix bugs... I wonder if man touch would have a different search result for different people. /shrug

tl;dr - i googled 'man touch' and the first result was the manual page which is surprising... and good.</strong></p>

So I recently watched amazing spiderman 2 and captain america 2. And I gotta say, Captain America 2 was way better in my opinion. The pacing of the movie was way more exciting and interesting. The fight scenes were more entertaining. And holy shit - GSP was in the movie. When I saw him I was like holy shit - that's GSP. Then I googled it just to make sure. That GSP fight was super super cool.

The other thing that I liked about Captain America was Samuel L Jackson. He's too cool as Nick Fury. Going to write about spoilers now... so if you haven't seen it. Better stop. I actually don't think this is really a spoiler because you know that Nick Fury wouldn't die. So in the movie Nick Fury 'dies' and then there's the plot of Shield being infiltrated and betrayed. The thing is Nick Fury has plot armor. You know he won't die because he'll be in the Avengers 2. And also, faking your death is so cliche now. Can't kill you when you're already dead - no shit. I think as I get older - movies become too predictable and all I see are the glaring plot holes. OMG the plot hole from spiderman 2. When someone tries to fucking shoot you, and you knock them out. Fucking kill them. Seriously. Or at least tie them up so that they don't fucking wake up and kick your ass. I mean, it happens in every single freaking movie. You KO the bad guy - try and save the heroine. And the bad guy wakes up and mauls you for being a dumbass. You'd think people would be smarter, but no.

So what was good about this movie. The pacing, the story, the good action scenes and fights. The villain had a metal arm and damn, I guess the choregraphy of fighting is better than spiderman picking on newbs. Even though I personally like seeing someone dominate - seeing spiderman dominate petty criminals is no fun.

tl;dr - watch captain america 2. amazing action and good pacing.</strong></p>

So I just watched amazing spiderman 2 recently. I'm trying to review the movie... but I actually didn't watch it in one sitting. I watched it one night before bed, then I watched it and fast forwarded through a lot of parts of it. I guess the amazing spiderman 2 wasn't such a good movie for me. Even though I really liked the first amazing spiderman and I went to see it in theaters.

I think the reason I didn't like the second movie was because... the villain wasn't that interesting...  and I didn't like how they randomly including the goblin. Also for some reason... I think the first spider man was the best spider man now. Tobey Maguire.. in that first spiderman movie was actually good.

What did I like about this movie... hmmm. Not much :( I really liked the spiderman effects. The one thing that I liked was actually how much chemistry Andrew Garfield had with Emma Stone. Damn, I'm so jealous of Andrew. Emma stone so kawaii~. But besides that... I guess I enjoyed the web swinging camera work.

Dislikes... pacing, plot, villain... pretty much everything. =/

tl;dr - don't watch amazing spiderman 2. Just watch the first spiderman movie with Tobey Maguire</strong></p>

Sometimes, I just smile and think about my present situation. I mean... thinking back to my childhood dreams - I've always dreamed of living by myself away from my parents and in complete freedom. And, in a way, I've finally achieved it.

It's currently Sunday night and I'm watching Log Horizon on my big screen TV from my bed while eating cheesecake. Life is good. It makes me think... maybe all our dreams do come true. I mean, living by myself.. having cheesecake and watching anime seemed so far away years ago. Maybe 3 years from now... my current dreams will have realized themselves and I'll be watching anime and having cheesecake in an exotic location like France or Japan.

I guess the purpose of this post was to remind myself that I'm living the life that I want for myself and I'm achieving that which I desired for myself. It's good to take a step back and see how far that I've gone and the person that I've become. An otaku software engineer with high level social skills. It's important to be able to talk to people and stuff and life is good.

A quick summary of log horizon so far... everything is amazing. Just like how Sword Art Online started amazing. It makes me miss the days when I would play MMO's. I really enjoyed all the hours and probably years that I've played Ragnarok Online. I really miss the community where there was ~50 people on the server and everyone knew each other. Or... all the high level people knew each other and guild wars were fun. Good times.

tl;dr - appreciate what you have. chase your dreams. watching anime with cheesecake is awesome</strong></p>

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I was just exercising at spin class when this thought popped into my head. I'm almost 25 which means I'm basically at my physical peak. That's kind of scary but at the same time super exciting. Sometimes I feel like I'm not pushing myself, almost like I'm wasting my talent. I could be doing so much more... and yet I'm content with a stable job and the otaku + gaming life.

I was wondering about how BJ Penn felt now... do you think he regrets squandering his talent? I mean, as I fan I'm really disappointed that he even went and competed at welterweight... and I feel that for the Edgar fights I and II he wasn't really fully prepared. If we had the BJ Penn that destroyed Kenny Florian and Diego Sanchez... damn. I mean, BJ is like the ultimate badass.. but he didn't always train to his best abilities.

Am I just lazying? Can I afford to just do the same thing for another year or two? They say limits are only limits when you acknowledge them... I guess I shouldn't limit myself. Looking back 10 years... hmmm maybe I should jot down the regrets I had over the past 10 years and make sure it doesn't happen for the future. That'll be the work of a page. But for now... I'd like to try and link BJ Penn squandering his talent to myself. I personally don't think I'm... nah bullshit. I could be doing so much more. I keep making excuses like I invest to much into work and it makes me tired and shit. While it's true to a certain degree, it's definitely an excuse. Regardless of how hard I work - I can still do more.

tl;dr - I can do more. I will do more. I won't waste the limited time that I have on this planet

Sabo is too cool. I think Sabo should be greater than Fujitora power wise but then I think it'll just be a stalemate and then everyone will leave once Luffy beats Don Flamingo.

I am still so excited to see the new power levels of the Straw Hat Crew. It looked like Luffy and Zoro were able to be on par with the admiral. I really want to see Luffy or Zoro lose or struggle so we have a sense what level they're at now. Based on my speculation both of them should be admiral level*ish.

I think that if either of them ran into Akainu they'd be able to last at least for a period of time. Like how Rayleigh could fight on par with the Admirals even though I feel in the long run the Admirals would win.

What I really didn't get was why Ace had to die. Everyone says Ace had to die because Luffy would never be able to become the pirate king living under Ace's shadow... but I feel that Sabo... he's almost in the same situation in a sense that I don't see Luffy surpassing Sabo in terms of power rankings. Damn, I wanna see Marco. Phoenix Marco yo.

tl;dr - sabo is to cool yo. what a</strong> badass.</p>

I think that I've inherited the 'rush' factor because of growing up with my dad. He's always in a rush for some reason. and he gets pissed off whenever you're slow. I guess that's why I always travel in a rush when there's no reason to. I've been conditioned to always rush... bleh.

I just visited my grandparents to spend time with them. They really want to 'see' me. And yet, every time I go see them it's always the same thing. every. single. time. It drives me nuts. blargh. They want to see me and yet they don't even do anything different. I don't get it.

Every time I see them it's 'have you been eating', 'have you been sleeping'. 'are you exercising' etc etc. Sigh. My grandparents worry about so much unnecessary stuff, it's something that I've grown up with and it's messed up my thinking. They worry about anything that can possibly go wrong etc etc. Totally pointless to worry about shit that may or may not happen.

I don't need to worry about getting mugged until I am actually in the process of getting mugged. On the other hand, I'm not exactly going to walk alone in the tenderloin at 3am in the morning in a happy go lucky state. But, do I really need to be worry about getting mugged from the comfort of my own home? No... but it's what my grandparents do and what they continue to do all the time. bleh.

tl;dr - no use worrying about shit until it happens</strong></p>

Been binge watching breaking bad on netflix. I've just been playing it in the background while I'm coding. I think I've become too critical of shows and real life. It's getting harder for me to suspend belief and immerse myself into a TV show. I mean, the whole premise of the show is retarded.

Some guy gets cancer, and then he wants to start cooking meth in order to support his family. After writing that... I guess it's not that retarded. The retarded part is that people offer to pay for his full medical costs and he's too 'proud' to accept free money. WTF?! So he spends all of his profits thus far to pay for his medical bills. Instead of accepting help and then saving his drug money for his family. Like WTF?! You want money to support your family and you are fucking wasting money paying for healthcare when you could've gotten it for free. WTF is with that logic.

I'm currently on season 2... and he's up $16k after weeks of drug dealing. OMGWTFBBQ. So fail. Then again I don't even have 16k lying around after 1.5 years of working so maybe I should start breaking bad.

tl;dr - walter is retarded

I already feel all Toronto'd out. So today I'm just going to write a big to-do list to make sure I get to it in my remaining time at Toronto.

I'm only in Toronto for another 6 days from today, so I think it's cool that I just take it easy on the exercise. I guess this will be a 3 week break from working out, I'll probably get weaker but I guess its cool to just take a break from time to time. In the words of a book that I read, f**k it. No need to eat healthy all the time, just take a true vacation.

I want to go out for afternoon tea every afternoon since I need to be coding anyways. I'll wake up and code and go out to cafe and write code in order to do work.

Looking at my room and house, there's just so much garbage that I don't want in my place. I have clothes from when I was 12 just sitting in my bedroom closet. I'm going to clean out all my closet and just donate all my shit. There's probably thousands of dollars worth of clothes that I've accumulated over the years, but now it's totally unnecessary. It's like the sweater that I wear once a year, or those 13 year old pants that I won't be able to fit into.

There's this huge stuffed animal in my room. There's also the senmitsu arcade stick parts that I ordered and spent $100 on in order to build my own arcade stick. So much junk is in my room and in my life. Junk that I don't need and it's time for me to purge it.

I'm planning on living with my grandparents for a few days. One of the primary reasons for me visiting to toronto was to spend time with them.

I still need to do my taxes, I'm hoping that my friend will take care of that for me. I want to spend time and see some of my friends that I haven't seen in awhile. Specifically, Mark, Willy, Cassie, Terry and Tak.

Besides spending time with grandparents and friends, going to try and get some reading done. and writing. There's so many pages that I've been meaning to write... I'll jot down the key idea on my cell phone but never get around to writing the full post. So time to write that.

• taxes</li>
• minimalism (1 garbage bag of shit thrown out per day)</li>
• grandparents</li>
• friends</li>
• reading + writing</li>
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Total gameplay time was 10 hours according to the PS3, but with deaths and whatnot I think I probably spent 12 hours on the game.

I played the game on devil hunter and not nehilim difficulty. I'm tempted to play the son of sparda difficulty followed by dante must die difficulty to unlock infinite dante. Very tempted, but that'll be at least 20+ hours.

I feel like the dumbed down the regular version of the game... it feels quite a bit easier than I remembered it. Then again, I played on level 2 and not level 3. So son of sparda + dante must die must be way harder. Tempted to try, but probably won't.

I am not a fan of the platform aspects of the game. They made the game 50% action and 50% platforming which was very annoying. I rather just have it be straightforward killing shit all the time, but that's probably a personal preference.

tl;dr - dmc is one of the few games I finished in 2014. If you liked any of the first 4 DMCs, the reboot manages to keep most of the goodness alive.</strong></p>

I just had lunch with my mom and sister. Spending time with my mother hurts my brain because her way of thinking is so bad. All she does is complain about life and how the world is out to get her. Nothing in life ever goes her way and she never tries to do anything about it. Her way of thinking is my life sucks and I'm not going to try and make it better. =_=

I bought my sister a $70 laptop bag for her macbook air. It's her belated birthday present. So she's in debt from her student loans, and she would rather buy a laptop bag from a store than order it online for cheaper. Instant gratification tax... and she's like yup. totally worth it. =_=. Then she goes and buys herself a $25 pair of earrings. Yeah, I'm already in debt so I buy myself things because.. debt, you know. Blargh. I can't believe I'm related to these people.

It's been exactly 6 days since I came back to Toronto and I'm already all family'd out. I guess now I remember why I had to move away from home in the first place. For the longest time I've had this dream... and while I was living at home it ways always a dream that I had no way of realizing. I couldn't even picture myself doing it. When I moved away from home, I finally could envision it happening. I could see myself becoming the person that I 'dreamed' of.

I guess I have too much stuff in Canada. I've actually acquired more stuff that I need in SF... so I should stop buying random shit and start selling some of my stuff. I think the minimalistic lifestyle is the best after all. It does become true that the stuff that you have end up owning you instead of the other way around. I guess that's why I wouldn't ever want to take a mortgage on a house because then I'd be a slave to debt.

tl;dr - your way of thinking shapes who you are. surround yourself with positive people</strong></p>

Went to Blue Ocean and new HK style cafe at Woodbine and Highway 7. The food is so good. Toronto Chinese food is so much better than San Francisco.

I am melting here in Toronto though. I live with no AC and it is 23C+. Gaming wise I'm already on level 17 of DMC. Devil May Cry is such an amazing game thus far, I can't wait to write the full review for it. The only downside is way to much platforming which I am not a fan of.

My sleeping is still messed up though because I've been drinking so much coffee and milk tea. It's currently 3am in Toronto and I'm feeling pretty awake. I don't think I'll be able to sleep for another 30 minutes because I just wrapped up some DMC and it keeps me hyped.

I've recently started watching the Street Fighter shorts on Machinima on youtube. It's pretty damn sweet.

tl;dr - getting fat and caffeinated from delicious toronto hk style cafes</strong></p>